1. Sedimentary rocks in hand sample -- 2. Textural clues to the history of sediment -- 3. Sedimentary rocks under the microscope -- 4. Ancient sedimentary environments -- 5. Major tectonic settings of earth history -- 6. Sea-floor spreading and plate tectonics -- 7. Age relations and unconformity -- 8. Rock units and time-rock units -- 9. Ancient shorelines -- 10. Fossils and their living relatives: protists, sponges, corals, bryozoans, and brachiopods -- 11. Fossils and their living relatives: mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, graptolites, and plants --12. Fossil indicators of age, environment, and correlation -- 13. A brief survey of the vertebrates -- 14. Geologic maps and geologic structures -- 15. Canadian shield and basement rocks of North America -- 16. Mountain belts of North America -- 17. The interior plains and plateaus -- 18. Igneous rocks -- 19. Metamorphic rocks